epitogium

Latin

Alternative forms

• epitogum (variant reading)

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ἐπί (epí, “on-”) +‎ toga +‎ -ium (“relative adjective suffix”). In several attestations it's unclear whether the medial i is present, but such a formation built directly on the root without a relative suffix would be unexpected.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /e.piˈto.ɡi.um/, [ɛpɪˈt̪ɔɡiʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /e.piˈto.d͡ʒi.um/, [epiˈt̪ɔːd͡ʒium]

Noun

epitogium n (genitive epitogiī or epitogī); second declension

1. a piece of clothing worn over the toga (typically a cloak); outdoor clothing

   Synonyms: amictus, amiculum

2. any piece of cloth covering

   Synonyms: strāgulum, strāmentum, (co)opertōrium, cooperimentum, cooperculum

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	epitogium	epitogia
Genitive	epitogiī epitogī1	epitogiōrum
Dative	epitogiō	epitogiīs
Accusative	epitogium	epitogia
Ablative	epitogiō	epitogiīs
Vocative	epitogium	epitogia

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Descendants

• → French: épitoge

References

• “epitog(i)um” in the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae (TLL Open Access), Berlin (formerly Leipzig): De Gruyter (formerly Teubner), 1900–present
• “epitogium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• epitogium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.